Brian Ler on WNYC, and now, as usual on Wednesdays, our lead Eric Adams reporter, Elizabeth Kim, with excerpts from an analysis of the Mayor's Tuesday news conference and to take your questions

and comments about them. Our topics this week will include Governor Hockel's last-minute congestion

pricing pause, Trump's support in New York City, and the proliferation of mopeds going every

which way on New York City streets, which you will hear the mayor call a menace.

Hey, Liz, thanks for keeping this slot open on your Wednesday schedule whenever you can. Welcome

back. Hi, Brian. So you know, our callers have been obsessed with Governor Hocos last minute

indefinite postponement of congestion pricing. So I'm sure a lot of folks are wondering, what does Mayor Adams think?

It's such an important issue for people in the city, pro or con.

So the mayor weighed in yesterday in the news conference, but only kind of sort of.

Listen.

You know, being the chief executive of the country or the state, you make, you have to make

tough choices. And no matter what choice you make, there's going to be a large number of people

are going to support. There's going to be a large number of people that are going to be against.

I mean, we're, you know, we're opening all of these new bathrooms

and people are like saying, well, it's not the color that I like, you know? People are holding press

conferences because, you know, of why you need to do it sooner. So that's just the nature of being

a chief executive. She made a decision. We need to support the governor who,

no matter what decision she makes, she's not a Buffalo only governor. Governor Hockel loves the state.

And that's the place that I come from. How do you feel about the state? She loves the state.

So Liz, I guess that's a yes. He does support the pause, but was it really more like,

that's the governor's authority? And I like the governor, so I have no comment.

I think it's more of the first, Brian. The mayor, though, hasn't been enthusiastic about congestion pricing. He has an outer borough base, many of whom own cars. And whenever he's been asked about congestion pricing, he's often tried to distance himself from that decision. He says that this is a decision that comes

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